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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
48 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
On Thursday evening a public meeting was held in the hall of the School of Arts, Hinton, for the purpose of considering the necessity of having a bridge across the Hunter at Hinton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have two further letters on this subject. One has no name attached. The other first goes at great length into a repetition of the former complaints, in answer to our Dungog…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—A paragraph appeared in your issue of the 23rd inst., under the head "Murrurundi," to the effect that a public meeting was held at Murrurundi to petition Government to remove the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—Much has appeared in your columns of late respecting the road from Clarence Town to Dungog: will you bear with me while I add a little more by way of explanation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AMONGEST the whole range of questions coming under the notice of the Minister for Works, there are probably few, if any, more difficult to settle satisfactorily than those connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT a recent meeting of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, Mr. Patterson, Resident Engineer of Railways, read a very interesting paper on the subject of light railways. Mr. Patterson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, directs it to be notified, that in pursuance of the provisions of the 4th section of the Crown Lands Alienation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation, comprising Messrs. Bawden, R. Forster, C. T. Weaver, and Fraser, M.L.A.'s, waited upon the Minister for Works this morning, to make certain representations connected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting of the inhabitants of Paterson was held, at the Court-house, Paterson, on Friday evening last, having been convened by the Warden of the district, to toke into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 24th of August, contrary to our forebodings, turned out a fine day, and in every way favorable to our race meeting, so without further preliminaries, I will come at once to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir—Since the floods of the present year the state of the above bridge is in a most dangerous situation. The floods left it minus the side rails, and since it is rather strange that no steps…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A committee of the House of Commons has sanctioned another extension of the Metropolitan tramway system. The projected line will start from a point near the Bank, and will pass…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The approach of the Mont Cenis Railway to a state of completion is giving rise to many questions of importance in the diplomatic and military circlesof France. In a recent conversation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Queenslander has the following interesting remarks on cheap wooden railways:— While Mr. George Raff and others were writing in the Press of Queensland upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gazette of Tuesday contains a new time table for the Great Northern Railway, extend ing as far as Aberdeen, to take effect on and from this day, the 20th inst. Taking the down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—The war news contained in your issue of the 25th instant may have been too absorbing to have permitted the attention of your readers to be turned to the fact that the item of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Marysville Appeal, of the 8th October, has the following account of the recent fire on the California Pacific train: As the afternoon upward bound train, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For some time past a number of workmen have been engaged at Orbeiston Bridge, crossing the Clydesdale branch of the Caledonia Railway near Motherwell, in making preparations for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yes, sir, more of the pluvial blessing, and the said blessing (if blessing it can be called after the surfeit we have had of it) is completely nullified in my estimation by its accompanying amount of plagues in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following details of that terrible railway accident on the Cork and Limerick line, which has unfortunately proved fatal, may be considered as authentic:—"The catastrophe…
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